Portrait of George Stokes (1819-1903)
- Title
- Portrait of George Stokes (1819-1903)
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Fine Art Photographs
- Identifier
- FA-PR-0008
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Reproduction of a stipple and line-engraved portrait of Irish mathematician and physicist Sir George Gabriel Stokes; done by engraver Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879) whose signature also appears on portrait. Stokes was one of the most influential scientists of the era, was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and Secretary of the Royal Society. His most famous work was in the field of fluid mechanics.